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IV.—On the Two Glaciations of the Lake District2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. E. de Rance
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It has always been difficult to account for the feet that, while Moraine Drifts occur at such low levels in the Lake District, Marine Drifts are found at such high elevations in the surrounding district. Mr. Mackintosh's new facts throw some light on this phenomena, but do not entirely explain it, owing to his having given, in my opinion, far too little importance to the second Glaciation experienced by the Lake District after its emergence from the Glacial Sea.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 81 , March 1871 , pp. 107 - 117
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1871

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Footnotes

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I have merely visited the district as a tourist.

References

page 107 note 3 “Glac. Phen. of Lan. and Ches.” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Dec. 1870.Google Scholar

page 108 note 1 Geol. Mag., 1866, p. 292.Google Scholar

page 109 note 1 In the Col between Longstrath and Mickleden, the highest elevation is 1,581 feet, and between them and Eskdale 2,490 feet; the small conical hill, called Allen Crags, 2,572 feet, rises in the centre, and is joined to Glaramara by a slightly elevated ridge, forming the north and south water-shed, between the water flowing east and then south into Morecambe Say, and that flowing west into the Irish Sea.

page 114 note 1 Edin. New. Phil. Journ., vol. xi., new series, 1860.Google Scholar

page 115 note 1 Edin. New Phil. Journ.

page 115 note 2 “Ancient Glaciers of North Wales.”

page 115 note 3 Being nearly as good as those I observed on the east bank of the foot of Lyn Lydaw (N. Wales), near the bridge over the lake, which are certainly the freshest looking of any in that district, or in the Lake District.